Downloaded the executable, but cannot open or "run" it as we say in windoz land. I guess I have to use "synaptic"?

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Did you download it directly from the WCG site? There's probably an already compiled BOINC Manager in Synaptic, although I use 12.04 which has the newer Ubuntu Software Center. try searching for BOINC Manager in Synaptic and see if you come across it first.

OMG!
It's so beautiful!!!!
I've never seen a SS of that many WUs going at once
...and i cannot even get them all on the screen at the same time.

BOINC doesn't use bonuses, so you'll just lose out on ~18 hours of crunching time. All projects are OK, sometimes HPF2 will give errors, but usually only on Windows.

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OK, pausing WCG and finishing the F@H WU. Will start back up on WCG tomorrow @ 3pm with the 4P rig. The i7-870 is running Boinc as of 6pm tonight and will stay on WCG. F@H SMP only netted 21K in Windows 7, so WCG it is!

OK, pausing WCG and finishing the F@H WU. Will start back up on WCG tomorrow @ 3pm with the 4P rig. The i7-870 is running Boinc as of 6pm tonight and will stay on WCG. F@H SMP only netted 21K in Windows 7, so WCG it is!

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Only 21k
I'd take that, it's still a 58% boost on where I am ATM (I've gotten saddled with only the 5187pt WUs again). I'd say you should get a solid 5-5.5k from the i7-870 depending on how high it's clocked.

It's very preliminary at this point, but it's looking like the X4 965BE is pulling about 2.3k PPD. Kinda horrible IMO...that's barely more than what a 2.4GHz C2Q will do. We'll see what it's looking like after it gets to run for a bit longer. This X58 board can't get RMA'd fast enough.